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Children of Prometheus
A History of Science and Technology
Benjamin Franklin Discovering Electricity , by Benjamin West (c. 1816-1817).
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Children of Prometheus
A History of Science and Technology
Second Edition
James MacLachlan
Wall & Emerson, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
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Dayton, Ohio
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Children of Prometheus
The Author
James H. MacLachlan is awriter living in Toronto. Formerly hewas Professor of History at
Ryerson Polytechnic University; before that he was Assistant Professor at the Institute
for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto; and
before that was Head of Science at W.A. Porter Collegiate Institute in Toronto. He holds a
B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in the History of
Science from Harvard University.
Copyright © 1988, 1989, 2002 by James MacLachlan
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any
form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photography, recording, or
any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the
publisher.
Orders for this book or requests for permission to make copies of any part of this work
should be sent to:
Wall & Emerson, Inc.
Six O’Connor Drive
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4K 2K1
Telephone: (416) 467-8685
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E-mail: wall@wallbooks.com
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Cover design and picture research: Alexander Wall
Cover picture: Benjamin Franklin Discovering Electricity , by Benjamin West. Philadelphia
Museum of Art/Corbis/Magma
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
MacLachlan, James H., 1928-
Children of Prometheus : a history of science and technology
2nd ed.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-921332-51-3
1. Science and civilization. 2. Science—History.
3. Technology—History. I. Title
CB478.M14 2002
509
C2001-901711-1
Printed in Canada.

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